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I have questions though. Iran and Israel have harsh rules for stuff being shared about the ongoing war. China ... has a huge population and harsh rules, too. What's the source for the list?
12,000???? Jesus christ i thought it was like 500 or something. What a bunch of authoritarian scumbags. Coming soon to a jurisdiction near you.... I mean they are already doing shady shit to suppress and intimidate dissenting voices in the US as well, although so far it hasn't been as egregious as the UK. It's not like the Bill of Rights will save us, the state has repeatedly demonstrated that it doesn't give a fuck about that document.
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fac 1 week ago
What is happening in the UK is unbelievable. It’s too much even for the high standards of stupidity that Europe is managing.
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Kush 1 week ago
Insightful… Old Blighty leading the way in the worst possible way
China numbers unreliable. Thesis 1) not reported correctly, of course it's more But... Thesis 2) who dares to post any critical content in super surveillance state China? People know better.
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Mike Beatty 1 week ago
I saw this too defo some good old fashioned media manipulation tbh due to reporting. It’s safe to say the world is going crazy not just the UK: Germany ∙ A journalist published a satirical meme of Germany’s interior minister holding a fake sign reading “I hate freedom of speech.” She reported him to the police, and he was prosecuted and given a seven-month suspended prison sentence.  ∙ In February 2026, Germany carried out coordinated nationwide raids over online hate speech posts, with law enforcement acting on approximately 140 investigations across all 16 federal states.  ∙ One man posted suggesting refugee children should play in electrical wires — fined 3,750 euros.  USA (more recent) ∙ Under the Trump administration, several foreign nationals were detained for one to two months after their visas were revoked over nonviolent online expression, including students posting about Gaza.  France ∙ The arrest of Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov on arrival in France — though that was framed around criminal law (child abuse material, organised crime) rather than speech directly. Canada ∙ A man was ordered to pay $10,000 after a Human Rights Tribunal ruled his Facebook posts, speeches, and emails about LGBTQ+ people constituted hate speech.  And back to the UK’s more absurd cases: ∙ A couple were arrested by six officers for criticising their daughter’s school headmaster selection process in a parents’ WhatsApp group.  ∙ An autistic 16-year-old girl was arrested for saying a police officer looked like her “lesbian nana” — her grandmother is actually lesbian.  The pattern across Western democracies is similar: the laws are broad, enforcement is inconsistent, and the cases that attract outrage tend to be the ones where the punishment seems wildly disproportionate to any actual harm caused.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ image
This must be old. Thousands of American citizens have been arrested for online comments criticising Israel. And here in Australia hundreds of people have been arrested. Per capita it's worst here.
All the Israeli and American pedophiles "China number too low" Meanwhile in reality, the number for USA is over 10k arrested for criticising Israel online
Like this article is a year old so the picture lopp shared is completely out of date /fabricated. Israelis are getting up to 5 years in prison just for speaking about Iran or sharing videos, hundreds have been arrested. Americans are being arrested for criticising Israel online, thousands have been arrested
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Barbosik228 1 week ago
I feel like this is about to go viral any second now image